Answer — Exercise 5
5B - Not for profit?·English File Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Listen again. Why does Alessandro mention the following?
Answer
- Their first product was gnocchi, which they sold to his friends.
- There's a Pasta Evangelist concession in Harrods.
- Sfoglini is the Italian word for the chefs who make the pasta. It means 'pasta artisans'.
- Sicily and Piemonte are two places where they get ingredients from - pistachios from Sicily and hazelnuts from Piemonte.
- £2,000 was the amount that Alessandro first invested in the business.
- Two million individuals saw Pasta Evangelists on the TV programme Dragons' Den.
- These are two of the types of business that compete with Pasta Evangelists for people's money.
- This is the price of one of their more luxurious dishes.
- Most of their deliveries outside London go to people living in small villages.
- They think they've only just started to reach the vast potential market for their products.